Sense of an Ending Kermode Frank
Sense of an Ending Kermode Frank Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly…
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Sense of an Ending Kermode Frank
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Prompted by the approach of the millennium, he revisits the book which brings his highly concentrated insights to bear on some of the most unyielding philosophical and aesthetic enigmas. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to age-old concepts of apocalyptic chaos and crisis.
Kermode then discusses literature at a time when new fictive explanations, as used by Spenser and Shakespeare, were being devised to fit a world of uncertain beginning and end. Examining the works of writers from Plato to William Burrows, Kermode shows how they have persistently imposed their "fictions" upon the face of eternity and how these have reflected the apocalyptic spirit. He goes on to deal perceptively with modern literature with "traditionalists" such as Yeats,